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Common dandelion, a weed with culinary and medicinal properties

1 Mar 2024 1 minute read 1 comment madventure

This weed, popular throughout Europe, Asia, America and Africa, has over a thousand varieties worldwide. Europe has about 200 of them. It can be found almost everywhere in the spring. It grows on lawns, in gardens, parks, by roads, in forest...

Inky mushroom or dark scaled mushroom - a trap for Champignon from the field

29 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Champignon growing in natural conditions are very treacherous mushrooms. Ignorance of their features and properties can lead to severe poisoning and even death. This species is poisonous, it can cause severe food poisoning, diarrhea, abdomina...

Purple dead-nettle, or purple archangel, a beautiful medicinal plant considered by many to be a weed

28 Feb 2024 1 minute read 2 comments madventure

This beautiful spring flower is often seen in parks, gardens and meadows. It is not only a beautiful plant, but also useful. Purple archangel, because we are talking about it, is a plant with many culinary and health applications. It is a pl...

To the layman, it looks like edible buttercream, but it's... commonly known as the wrinkled webcap

27 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

To the layman, it looks like edible buttercream, but it's... commonly known as the wrinkled webcap. When you meet it for the first time, from above and even from the side it looks like a butter mushroom, a tasty edible mushroom. Even the muc...

Are you going mushroom picking in the forest? don't miss these beauties

26 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Common ramping-fumitory (Fumaria muralis) This beautiful annual flower is a very common inhabitant of the forests where we pick mushrooms. It can reach up to 60 cm in height. Prefers shaded places. The plant appears in Europe as early as April...

A representative of widely spread but little-known arboreal fungi. - Gymnopilus liquiritiae

25 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  This fungus is another representative of widely spread but little-known arboreal fungi. It can be found throughout Europe, both Americas, Asia and even in North Africa. It prefers moist places on rotting coniferous trees, on the...

March mushroom (Hygrophorus marzuolus) is one of the first spring edible mushrooms

24 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

The name of this mushroom is not accidental. Firstly, it appears in March, sometimes at the end of February, when the thaws begin, and secondly, it likes a wet environment very much. Therefore, very often we can meet her in the vicinity of stre...

Scarlet elfcup - a mushroom with a toxic appearance, edible, but is it tasty?

23 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

However, the Austrian cup does not have any special taste, it basically has no taste or smell. Its feature that may appeal to gourmets is its cartilage, or its aesthetic qualities, because it looks nice and mysterious on the table. The diame...

Beautiful forest flowers - Common columbine and Myosotis nemorosa

22 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

Common columbine is a perennial with a beautiful bell-shaped flower. It can reach over half a meter in height and has characteristic unique leaves. The plant is frost-resistant, and you should look for it in damp, wet places, in damp forests....

Meadow representative of coral-shaped mushrooms - Clavulinopsis corniculata (Meadow Coral)

21 Feb 2024 1 minute read 0 comments madventure

  The first encounter with such a mushroom may slightly disturb our thinking about this species. The fungus is arboreal and unusual. Its structure does not remind us of any known mushroom species. It is very delicate to the touch, and the growing...